Ex-President Alberto Fujimori found guilty of sanctioning paramilitary death squad

Peru’s ex-President Alberto Fujimori was found guilty on all charges Tuesday for sanctioning a paramilitary death squad that gunned down 25 people in two notorious massacres during the first two years of his 10-year authoritarian rule. Chief Judge César San Martín announced the unanimous verdict by the three judge panel at 9:26 a.m., bringing to [...]

Sensational diva soprano emerges from Peru’s Southern Andes

By Paul Goulder Puno awoke one morning last week to the arrival of a reporting team from the top-rated Lima television channel to interview Edith Ramos, whose mercurial, multi-octave voice has people calling her the next Ima Sumac, Peru`s greatest soprano during the Hollywood boom era.

Peru’s journalistic community mourns passing of Mary Powers

Mary Powers, a leader and beloved colleague of Peru’s foreign press community, died Friday, Jan. 9, at home after a long illness.  She was 54. Mary was born in Springfield, Mass., the daughter of the late Thomas “Jinx” and Harriet Powers of West Springfield.  Mary attended  St. Thomas School and graduated from Cathedral High School.

Peru President Alan Garcia delivers Lima APEC 2008 economic statement

President Alan Garcia opens APEC ’08 summit

President Bush APEC Participation Correction

Due to an editing error, the Peruvian Times reported erroneously today that President George W. Bush’s participation in the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima this weekend was his first APEC meeting since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Bush has participated in every APEC summit since 2001.

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